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In the grim darkness of the far future there is only... diplomatic resolutions and reasonable compromise? Maybe not, but Peaceful Negotiations is a campaign weekend which offers a lighter type of 40k event. No cut-throat competition here but plenty of fun and relaxed 40k gaming themed around the battle for control of the Thule sub-sector, encompassing a range of escalating points levels from 750pts to 2k!

The weekend is priced at £25 for 6 games of fluffy fun-filled 40k using plenty of non-standard missions; see below for background and the bottom of the OP for all the crunch!

Background


The campaign takes place in the Thule system, a group of worlds nestled in the Eastern Fringe around the star known as the Lonely Light. Sat between the Tau Empire and the Charadon sector, the system is plagued by raids from Ork and Tau alike as well as renegade human pirates. Following the decimation of Hive Fleet Gorgon and its dissolution into tiny splinter fleets, the alien horror of the Tyranids has also become a fact of life for the defenders of Thule. Embattled as it is, the system has little to offer the wider Imperium and so it suffers its depradations with minimal support. In these conditions it is easy for a man to become disenchanted and such was the case with one Altarus Angsaar, commander of the PDF on the system capital world Hatheg Kla. Worn down by the constant pressure of defending his world with scant resources, he beseeched any who would listen to aid him in his fight. From across the Empyrean a voice answered, reinvigorating Altarus Angsaar’s warrior spirit and that of the soldiers who served him.

Initially the PDF were spurred on to heroic action, crushing the forces of the famed Ork pirate Gitsnikka Zogead and killing the warlord himself. Soon, though, their martial prowess spilled over into outright bloodlust; following the whispers of the being beyond the void Altarus Angsaar seized power first on Hatheg Kla and later over the whole of the Thule system, his weary PDF troopers transformed into a rampaging horde of Chaos warriors. In a last desperate cry for help an Astropath dispatched a message to the fortress world of Mytos K’uun, but the communication was incorrectly labelled and as such archived away without ever being deciphered. The dire situation in Thule was not discovered until a decade later, when the Rogue Trader Davos Starborn followed up on a broken trade agreement only to discover his contact long dead and the system descended into anarchy.

Finally alerted to the desperate need for military intervention the Imperium launched a campaign to regain the system, calling on all nearby regiments as well as available Astartes Chapters to divert themselves to Thule with immediate effect. Unconfirmed reports suggest that Hatheg Kla itself was so far gone that the Inquisition has taken an interest and that silver-armoured Astartes of terrible repute have been sighted, though all who spread such mistruth are quickly executed for involving themselves in Inquisitorial business.

The Imperium’s woes do not end there, however. Though Man had taken ten years to notice the disturbance on its own world, the Third Sphere expansionists of the Tau Empire have developed a strong interest in the region, and sporadic raids have turned into an outright invasion effort aimed at capturing the system whilst it is isolated and weak. In this action the Tau have found an unlikely ally in the Eldar; though the alliance is fragile it is the creation of the Farseer Eldra’nath and the pirate prince Hywel. Eldra’nath has foreseen a day when the Tau will return a favour done to them and come to his Craftworld’s defence, and he believes that Eldar assistance in the capture of Thule is that favour. In aid of this Prince Hywel has assembled a mighty warhost, drawing on his own corsair fleet as well as Craftworld Eldar and even the Dark Kin, though whether these fractious allies can truly be trusted is a mystery which will only be answered in the crucible of war.

Along with his host, however, Hywel brings a plague of the unliving in the form of the Phaeron Ramesses the Suneater. Hywel wields an ancient Necron blade stolen from Ramesses’ tomb and the Necron Lord has sworn to retrieve it at any cost. With Hywel attracting so much attention to himself it was inevitable that the Suneater would find him, and so now Ramesses has called all the worlds at his command to march on Thule in his pursuit of Hywel’s destruction and the cleansing of the stain on his honour.

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The rulespack with all the crunch is also now available here.

Look forward to hearing more on it

Thanks - we think it'll be a lot of fun once we actually figure out what we're doing with it!

If I can bring my Elysians then yes I am in...Drop me a pm if you can matey

Elysians are in - I can say from the start that the various FW lists are allowed as will be various FW toys in other armies. More details when we have them!

Might be an idea to give a location. I'm guessing uk somewhere, and might be interested depending on where it is.

thanks, grrr

Thought I had! Bristol UK :-)

Bristol UK up my street and in my woods...

Confirmed as acceptable location.... Sweet

Good stuff guys I'm really excited for this one, still working out all the details of how we're going to run it but whatever we come up with it should be a lot of fun.

Hi guys,

We've had more of a think about this one and we've made some progress on working out the system.

The basic idea is that in the first round your games are pre-assigned and you play a 750pt skirmish which sets the scene for the rest of the event. After this we take the average of each race's results and use that to rank them all - so if 4 Space Marine players get 2 wins, a draw and a loss they'll earn 5 points which gives them a 1.25pt average, where 5 Tau players with 2 wins, a draw and 3 losses would have an 1pt average.

All the missions for games 2-6 have an attacker and a defender and the player whose race is ranked higher takes the part of the attacker. To assign games players simply pick their own table, with the players of the lowest-average race picking first and then onwards until you reach the highest-average race (and you can only double up when all the tables are full!). The defender gets to pick his deployment zone with no roll required; the attacker gets first turn and deploys first.

For game 6 instead of taking the previous round's average we take the whole event's average.

It all sounds a bit techy and complex but what it essentially boils down to is that games directly affect the ebb and flow of the war, with each race going on the offensive or bunkering up depending on how well they're doing. We cap the event off with an epic 2000pt Meat Grinder (adapted for 5th of course!) to represent the final push as the Thule system descends into total war.

As well as the missions (different in every game and none of which are straight up 5th ed slogs!) there's a secret objective card on each table - we'll be distributing these randomly between each round and even the organisers won't know which tables have which secret objectives in each round.

We're working up fluff to match the crunch which we hope will give us a fun and varied event which is very different from the norm.

Hi, Just for update I believe 3 guys I game with are actually coming to this now. Any more details and costs please?

The cost will be £25 like all our weekend events. I wrote the fluff up the other day but that was on my way to the Caribbean so I need to take five minutes to run it past the other guy once I return to the UK. We'll have a big announcement related to the event in the new year with a full rundown of the fluff, the event set-up and a few hints about what secret objectives and things you might face as you decide the fate of the Thule system.

Sweet....I have posted a link for the other guys that will be coming down. I know for a fact that two of them are on this site regularly...sure they will post up at some point soon lol

It's an exciting day for fluffy 40k - we've now updated the OP with details of the background for the event as well as a full rulespack laying out all the crunch. We hope you enjoy it!

This is gonna be a great event.....I was almost tempted to start scribbling down lists.

You should! What were you going to bring?

I am going to bring my Elysians.....we will die quickly

I'll see if I can whip my Necrons into shape for this tournie, I live in Bristol anyway and easy access to the location

Good stuff Gir, Newcrons are a lot easier to put into campaigns like this now that they actually have a personality and stuff rather than just going 'lol its a tomb world!'

Well I normally play Chaos or Chaos Daemons but I fancy a change of army. Plus I do really feel like making a fluffy nemsor army, or inventing my own tomb world entirely and I think I'd have a fair bit of fun doing so.

Also I want my scarabs to eat more land raiders. Have a Av 1/1/1 Land Raider being penned by anything that looks at it is just hilariously good fun.

Anything that makes Land Raiders fall over in a stiff breeze is worth it

Can you clarify the first game force organisation slots.....should it be 0-1 for each item or just 1 of the force organisation slot....so you must have 1 elite, 1 heavy, 1 fast attack etc

Right then - this is only two months away! If you're interested in attending then please post your name here; I've updated the rulespack so you can now pay by either Paypal or cheque (or of course directly to us - we'll be at the GT in March as well as our own Rampage event in April so if you're attending any of those then that's fine!)

We'd love to see some of you out for some fluffy bunny action as well as the hardcore competitive stuff so come on down

e: Lovepug, it's 0-1, you don't have to have all of them!

Great....oh and yes I will be coming + 1 or others who I will chase up

Why in the name of Zeus's butthole can't we have something this cool in the states, maybe in the central Florida area...possibly...someday.

If I ever move to central Florida I'll be sure to run one

Battlecult wrote:If I ever move to central Florida I'll be sure to run one

I'll be here, holding my breath. lol

Alright boys and girls, we've had lots of interest but no firm commitment and we need the latter to book the space. If you're interested in coming then you have until the end of this week (April 1st) to say so and give us your name and the names of anyone accompanying you so we can get an idea of actual numbers. Please do this ASAP because this will be a ton of fun but we can't well run it with no-one there!

Is this available still?